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Type: Book
ISBN: 9780062503688, 62503685
Page count: 529
Language: English
Published: 1991
Publisher: San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco
Author: Marija Alseikaitė Gimbutas
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Presents evidence for the existence of an agrarian earth goddess- worshipping civilization in Old Europe that was destroyed by horse-riding, patriarchal, sky-god-worshipping warriors from the east. A panoramic survey of the Neolithic culture of Europe before the Indo-Europeans. With over 600 photographs, drawings, maps, and charts.

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Marija Alseikaitė Gimbutas was a Lithuanian-American archaeologist and anthropologist.

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Gimbutas, Marija A. The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.

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